Our longtime technology partner, SGI, has just released their latest version of the SGI Technology Guide for Users of Abaqus.

"This SGI technology guide is intended to help customers make knowledgeable choices in regards to selecting high-performance computing (HPC) hardware to optimally run Abaqus software from the SIMULIA brand of Dassault Systèmes. This guide reviews the performance of Abaqus executed on three types of SGI platforms:the SGI® Rackable™ cluster, the SGI® ICE™ XA cluster and the SGI® UV™ 3000 Shared Memory Parallel(SMP) platform. In addition to presenting performance results on these three computer platforms, we discuss the benefits of using multicore Intel® processors, the trade-offs of different network topologies, NVIDIA® compute GPU device performance and the use of SGI® MPI PerfBoost. Also included are sizing guidelines and recommendations for HPC computing platforms running Abaqus.The Abaqus models selected for this guide are included with each Abaqus release. Using the common datasets provides a way to characterize system performance on various platforms to allow general performance comparisons."